Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 20:47:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Spidey <beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: The Quest <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Make installworld on a different root Message-ID: <14368.40821.739323.658212@anarcat.dyndns.org> References: <14344.55814.875517.992929@anarcat.dyndns.org> <3808EE5A.6379238@gorean.org>
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Report. 1 Month later. :)) It's seems to have been going pretty well. I have some stuff in /stand/sysinstall that do not install correctly, though. For one, the installation of 'sysinstall' itself is not going correctly at all. By default, there isn't even a /stand/ dir in /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist. That's one. Second, when you do a "make all install" (in /usr/src/release/sysinstall) like advised in the recent handbook the binary installs as /stand instead as /stand/sysinstall since there's no /stand/ dir! I also made an interesting experiment. In fact, from the start, I wanted to install on a second drive as a backup to re-arrange my partitions and do a make world at the same time (pretty stupid idea, actually). By the time I find a viable way to do this, I discover the marvelous dump backup/restore utility, and I do the thing this way. Believe me, it is _much_ simpler: a boot floppy (well, now there's 3 of 'em..) a dump, and you're ready to go! But I was still worried. I wanted to have some kind of a 'clean' install. The dump simply got me to the point I was before, but with good partitions. So I effectively made: cd /usr/src && make buildworld && make DESTDIR=/mnt installworld to have a clean install on /mnt (my new drive) so that I could compare. Again, by that time, I discovered the marvelous mtree utility. :) So I made a mtree on /mnt and on my / to compare. I found out that mtree was lacking some basic functions such as the possibility to specify on which files you want to create a specification. Anyways.. So I found myself with 2 enourmous mtree outputs, that I had to 'diff'. That was the result: 47870 spidey 2 0 97908K 8340K select 3:05 8.35% 8.35% xemacs-21.1- and later: 47870 spidey 2 0 131M 10180K select 5:25 3.47% 3.47% xemacs-21.1- That's _so_ fun. :) I went diff'ing (ediff'ing, in fact) and found out that my current tree had 49Mb of stray files. This is the stuff that didn't get installed on the new system, but that was on my original system (we're not talking about the /usr/local/ or even /usr/X11R6 trees, here!). In there was some ports that were misinstalled (well, I guess it was... does anyone know what AlerT and binaries as such are??), perl 5.00502 (with the new 5.00503!!!) and some compat thingies (aout libs, etc.), residues of the sendmail suite I did not installed, etc. This box is a 3.3-Stable that went stable after a 3.0-RELEASE CD install. If you want the mtree output of the files that I removed, I could publish it somewhere, I guess. But I won't publish the mtree output of my tree, as it is something like 80Mb... One thing I removed, as I said, are the /usr/lib/compat libraries, as they did not install on the installworld. But then, netscape stopped working. So I put them back. But how do I build these again? Is this the COMPAT22 option in the /etc/make.conf? It should be announced more clearly that this is needed, if it is. you would be surprised of how much useless stuff gets into your tree if you don't take care of it... I wouldn't want to be forced to clean my /usr/local/ or /usr/X11R6! :)) So, that said, I can only say BRAVO! to the FBSD team, as I have a great box here working night and day as hell, with no real bad surprises.. Happy FBSD'ing The AnarCat. --- Big Brother told Doug to write, at 14:30 of October 16: > Spidey wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > Did anybody experienced the effects of make DESTDIR=/mnt installworld? > > That should work, and the installworld step only takes about 15 > minutes, so why don't you try it and let us all know what you find? > > Good luck, > > Doug > -- > "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." > > - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" -- Si l'image donne l'illusion de savoir C'est que l'adage pretend que pour croire, L'important ne serait que de voir Lofofora To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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